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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

In March 2020 the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) stated: "The deadly flu outbreak of 1918-19 is often called the ‘forgotten pandemic.’ Our responsibility now is to ensure the lessons of COVID-19 are not forgotten. Our collective efforts to capture and preserve the essential online elements of this unprecedented event are critical." (CARL-ABRC). The COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North) Web Archive reflects community experiences and responses to the pandemic in the region served by Vancouver Island University, documenting and supporting diverse aspects of scholarly inquiry, creativity, and community life. The Web Archive is intended to provide a body of information that will support scholarship, creativity, and study. Information rights related to web archiving include considerations of copyright and fair dealing, and of individual and community privacy. The following are among principles and resources that guide web archiving decisions: Ethics of care, for example in VIU Library’s Pledge to our user communities; OCAP® principles, and awareness of relationality and accountability to Indigenous communities, and potential impacts related to web archiving; Good practice and expert advice, emerging and accessed through communities of practice, e.g. the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC); and VIU Library, Evolution of Physical Collections: 2017-2021 VIU Library, Special Collections Guidelines (Under review 2020). Web archives are informed by available capture technologies and also by affordances of the content source; not all websites can be successfully crawled or rendered, and quality of archived versions varies. This project is supported by VIU's Special Funding for COVID-19 research projects and carried out in coordination with the University of Victoria’s COVID-19 Collection and the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition. Contact us at research.help@viu.ca with questions or for more information about content included in the Web Archive. [Working description 2021 April 6]

Subject:   Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Science & Health Vancouver Island COVID-19 (Disease)

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Title: 911 dispatch apologizes to Victoria business after ignoring calls for help during COVID-19 protest | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/911-dispatch-apologizes-to-victoria-business-after-ignoring-calls-for-help-during-covid-19-protest-1.5768224

Description: Greater Victoria’s 911 dispatch service is apologizing to the staff of a downtown Starbucks after calls for help were ignored.

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Subject:   Starbucks Becker, Rich Bradley, Jasmine Victoria Police Department Hotel Grand Pacific James, Reid Horgan, John Helps, Lisa,  City of Victoria ,  E-Comm 911

Title: City of Victoria faces hefty bill to repair parks used for shelter during pandemic | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/city-of-victoria-faces-hefty-bill-to-repair-parks-used-for-shelter-during-pandemic-1.5578140

Description: The City of Victoria's parks staff says it will cost more than $500,000 to repair damage caused by people sheltering in parks during the pandemic.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Beacon Hill Park Helps, Lisa

Title: City of Victoria puts 25 staff on unpaid leave due to vaccination status | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/city-of-victoria-puts-25-staff-on-unpaid-leave-due-to-vaccination-status-1.5738739

Description: More than two dozen City of Victoria staff members were put on unpaid leave after failing to meet the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all municipal workers.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Vaccinations Jenkyns, Jocelyn Eisenhauer, Bill City of Nanaimo District of Saanich Township of Esquimalt Capital Regional District Rapid Antigen Tests

Title: Victoria business owners optimistic about downtown safety as tourism season restarts | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-business-owners-optimistic-about-downtown-safety-as-tourism-season-restarts-1.5813243

Description: On April 6, Victoria will welcome its first cruise ship visit in three years, and with it comes optimism.

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Subject:   Bray, Jeff Downtown Victoria Business Association Helps, Lisa,  City of Victoria ,  Victoria Police Department MacIntyre, Cam Lucky Bar Woodward, B.

Title: Victoria motel sheltering homeless during COVID-19 suffers thefts, staff abuse | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-motel-sheltering-homeless-during-covid-19-suffers-thefts-staff-abuse-1.4907217

Description: The manager of a landmark Victoria motel that's housing the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic says the business has suffered thefts, staff abuse and unhygienic conditions.

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Subject:   Powell, Ian Paul's Motor Inn,  City of Victoria

Title: Victoria requiring COVID-19 vaccinations from all city staff | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-requiring-covid-19-vaccinations-from-all-city-staff-1.5648870

Description: Employees working for the City of Victoria will have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by early next year.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Vaccinations Jenkyns, Jocelyn District of Saanich District of Central Saanich Township of Esquimalt Capital Regional District

Title: Victoria to open outdoor homeless shelters amid COVID-19 pandemic | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-to-open-outdoor-homeless-shelters-amid-covid-19-pandemic-1.4865094

Description: The City of Victoria is opening temporary homeless shelters at three city parks to assist people through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Island Health BC Housing Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness Dandelion Society Helps, Lisa Royal Athletic Park

Title: Inside the COVID isolation units for unhoused patients in Victoria | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-isolation-units-unhoused-victoria/

Description: Last week, after COVID had been circulating in the unhoused community for a month, Island Health, BC Housing, and the City of Victoria announced 50 isolation beds would be coming to Victoria; 30 would be in existing shelter and housing facilities, while the other 20 would be in a new location expected to open at the beginning of November.

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Subject:   Travelodge by Wyndham Victoria Stanwick, Richard Island Health BC Housing,  City of Victoria ,  Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Helps, Lisa Royal Jubilee Hospital Ross, Caitlin Victoria Cool Aid Society SOLID Outreach Society Irvine, Josh Ottosen, Niki The Back Pack Project Eby, David

Title: Leaked documents show 225 COVID-19 cases among Victoria’s unsheltered population | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/leaked-documents-covid-19-cases-victorias-unsheltered-population/

Description: A total of 225 people living in shelters and on the streets in Victoria have tested positive for COVID-19 throughout the first three weeks of September, according to a pair of internal public health documents leaked to Capital Daily.

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Subject:   Island Health Stanwick, Richard BC Housing,  City of Victoria ,  McKenzie, Grant Our Place Society Portland Housing Society Johnson Street Community Victoria Chinatown Care Centre Sunset Lodge Salvation Army

Title: Beleaguered restaurants pushing for patio reprieve | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/temporary-patio-extension-victoria/

Description: Temporary patio liquor licences are set to expire in June. For restaurants, they’ve been a lifeline—and owners are afraid of losing them.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Loveday, Jeremy Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General Miller, Josh Pagliacci's Irish Times Bard & Banker MacNeil, Connor The Courtney Room Lewis, Bill Helps, Lisa BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch Tostenson, Ian BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association BC Liquor Distribution Branch

Title: Victoria Airbnbs are disappearing through the pandemic, returning rentals to the market | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/victoria-airbnbs-disappearing-covid-rentals/

Description: How the pandemic did what regulators couldn’t, and how that’s played out in the rental market.

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Subject:   Airbnb,  City of Victoria ,  University of Victoria

Title: ‘This was the worst case scenario’: No plan for COVID-positive unhoused people in Victoria | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/worst-case-scenario-covid-positive-unhoused-people-victoria/

Description: Bylaw officers seized tents and supplies for sick people, while authorities wring hands over lack of options.

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Subject:   Island Health BC Housing,  City of Victoria ,  Stanwick, Richard Topaz Park Ottosen, Niki The Back Pack Project Perkins, Shae Helps, Lisa Royal Jubilee Hospital Sobering & Assessment Centre Province of British Columbia Beacon Hill Park

Title: How gardening gave me structure, purpose and a path out of depression during the pandemic | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6072818

Description: Growing vegetables became a personal bastion for my mental health, Tim Ford writes.

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Subject:   Ford, Tim,  City of Victoria

Title: Lifeguard shortage forcing public pool closures in Greater Victoria | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6209592

Description: The capital regional district is currently experiencing a shortage of certified lifeguards and, as a result, some public pools in the region have had to reduce their hours and, on some occasions, shut their doors entirely.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Brehaut, Jeff Crystal Pool & Fitness Centre Esquimalt High School Esquimalt Recreation Centre Pierik, Tina Kuemper, Kim Township of Esquimalt Lifeguards

Title: B.C. Attorney General files appeal in Beacon Hill Park sheltering decision | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/b-c-attorney-general-files-appeal-in-beacon-hill-park-sheltering-decision-994739/

Description: B.C.’s Attorney General has filed an appeal for the decision that sheltering in Beacon Hill Park is not permitted by the park’s trust.

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Subject:   Beacon Hill Park Punnett, Robert Eby, David,  City of Victoria ,  King, Douglas Alexander, John Friends of Beacon Hill Park Smith, Shae Davies, Dennis Helps, Lisa

Title: 50 new isolation beds to open for homeless people in Victoria as COVID-19 spreads | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/b-c-attorney-general-victoria-mayor-to-provide-update-on-covid-19-in-homeless-community-892874/

Description: The province will fund approximately 50 new spaces for unhoused people with COVID-19 to isolate in Greater Victoria, B.C.’s attorney general announced alongside Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps Friday.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia Eby, David Helps, Lisa BC Housing Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Island Health,  City of Victoria ,  Stanwick, Richard Vaccinations Henry, Bonnie

Title: Court dismisses Victoria council candidate's challenge of B.C.'s COVID-19 health measures | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/court-dismisses-victoria-council-candidates-challenge-of-b-c-s-covid-19-health-measures-1092101/

Description: The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge of the province’s COVID-19 public health measures from a man vying for a Victoria council seat next month.

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Subject:   Hinkson, Christopher Henry, Bonnie Eby, David BC Vaccine Card Maddock, Jeremy Vaccinations VIVA Victoria Vancouver Island Voters Association,  City of Victoria

Title: COVID-19 Vancouver Island closures, cancellations and business changes | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/covid-19-vancouver-island-closures-cancellations-and-business-changes-655340/

Description: Here is a list to keep you in the loop of all the closures, cancellations, and schedule changes around Vancouver Island as a result of COVID-19.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre Royal Athletic Park Island Health Capital Regional District DeMamiel Creek Golf Course District of Saanich Saanich Commonwealth Place G.R. Pearkes Recreation Centre Gordon Head Recreation Centre Cedar Hill Recreation Centre Comox Valley Sports Centre City of Courtenay Comox Valley Aquatic Centre Comox Valley Curling Club Comox Valley Regional District City of Nanaimo Nanaimo Aquatic Centre Nanaimo Ice Centre Beban Park Social Centre Bowen Park Complex Oliver Woods Community Centre Port Theatre City of Langford Eagle Ridge Community Centre Starlight Stadium Westhills Ice Arena Goudy Field Langford Lanes Town of Esquimalt Town of Sidney Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea Mary Winspear Centre Sidney Museum and Archives Municipality of North Cowichan Cowichan Aquatic Centre Village of Cumberland Strathcona Gardens Recreation Complex Strathcona Regional District Campbell River Sportsplex City of Campbell River Campbell River Community Centre Quadra Island Community Centre Gorge Hall Manson's Community Hall Sayward Heritage Hall Village of Gold River Garrick's Head Pub The Churchill Fol Epi De Dutch Pannekoek House Brasserie L'Ecole Milestones Irish Times Bard & Banker BC Ferries Black Ball Ferry Line Coho (Ferry) Victoria Clipper FRS Clipper Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Victoria Royals Western Hockey League Obama, Michelle Taylor, James Raitt, Bonnie Provincial Court of British Columbia Victoria Police Department Royal Canadian Mounted Police GoodLife Fitness Tim Hortons Spinco Vancouver Island Belfry Theatre Greater Victoria Public Library Vancouver Island Regional Libraries Mount Washington Alpine Resort British Columbia Superior Courts Sidney Star Cinema Landmark Cinemas Cineplex Entertainment Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce WestJet Royal BC Museum Insurance Corporation of British Columbia Hudson's Bay Company

Title: Island Health, BC Housing working to find isolation sites as COVID-19 spreads through street community | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/island-health-bc-housing-working-to-find-isolation-sites-as-covid-19-spreads-through-street-community-888716/

Description: Two weeks after Island Health confirmed COVID-19 has reached the street community, it’s saying little about how many cases there are and where, citing privacy. But a local service provider has now shared an internal document with CHEK News it obtained from a nurse that shows 225 cases have been identified to date in the community at 15 different sites.

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Subject:   Island Health BC Housing Pauly, Bernie Stanwick, Richard,  City of Victoria

Title: James Bay residents calling on government to better protect community from convoy protesters | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/james-bay-residents-calling-on-government-to-better-protect-community-from-convoy-protesters-992757/

Description: Residents in downtown Victoria have been raising concerns around the so-called “Freedom Convoy” that has been taking place weekly at the B.C. Legislature since January.

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Subject:   Thompson, Nevin,  City of Victoria ,  Korinetz, Bruce Victoria Police Department

Title: Nanaimo approves on-street restaurant patios amid pandemic | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/nanaimo-approves-on-street-restaurant-patios-amid-pandemic-671385/

Description: The City of Nanaimo is temporarily changing the rules to allow restaurants and bars to pour their business, and drinks, out in the city streets this summer.

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Subject:   City of Nanaimo Henry, Bonnie,  City of Victoria

Title: No isolation beds exist for Victoria's homeless COVID-19 patients | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/no-isolation-beds-exist-for-victorias-homeless-covid-19-patients-886037/

Description: Turns out, there are no isolation or quarantine sites available for those living on the street who test positive for the virus.

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Subject:   Stadacona Park,  City of Victoria ,  BC Housing Our Place Society Victoria Cool Aid Society Island Health Helps, Lisa Livingstone, Bruce Chadwick, Jason

Title: No overnight sheltering allowed at Beacon Hill Park, court rules | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/no-overnight-sheltering-allowed-at-beacon-hill-park-court-rules-958363/

Description: B.C.’s top court has ruled that people experiencing homelessness cannot take up shelter at Beacon Hill Park due to a long-standing trust agreement held by the City of Victoria.

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Subject:   Beacon Hill Park,  City of Victoria ,  Punnett, Robert Helps, Lisa

Title: Petition asks City of Victoria to enforce noise, traffic bylaws during weekend convoy protests | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/petition-asks-city-of-victoria-to-enforce-noise-traffic-bylaws-during-weekend-convoy-protests-954380/

Description: An online petition has been created calling on the city of Victoria to enforce noise bylaws during weekend Freedom Convoy protests at the BC Legislature.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Thompson, Dave Watson, Gordon Victoria Police Department

Title: 'Prepare for the worst': Anti-hate groups warn downtown residents before the arrival of truck convoy | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/prepare-for-the-worst-anti-hate-groups-warn-downtown-residents-before-the-arrival-of-truck-convoy-980771/

Description: The convoy, ‘BearHug B.C.’ is expected to arrive in Victoria on March 14 and anti-hate groups are advising the city to prepare for the worst.

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Subject:   Bauder, James Canada Unity Canadian Anti-Hate Network Balgord, Evan Vaccinations BC Vaccine Card Boyd, Doug Victoria Downtown Residents Association,  City of Victoria ,  Victoria Police Department Manak, Del

Title: Victoria council passes noise bylaw in response to honking protesters | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/victoria-council-passes-noise-bylaw-in-response-to-honking-protesters-959475/

Description: Following several weekends of protesters honking their vehicle horns at the B.C. Legislature, Victoria council has unanimously passed a motion to allow officers to ticket people who unlawfully sound horns.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Helps, Lisa

Title: Victoria council votes unanimously to make the first pandemic patio, permanent | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/victoria-council-votes-unanimously-to-make-the-first-pandemic-patio-permanent-950966/

Description: The sign may still say ‘temporary’, but Phillips Brewery’s roadside patio which popped up in the pandemic is now here for good.

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Subject:   City of Victoria ,  Phillips Brewing & Malting Co. Phillips, Matt Helps, Lisa

Title: Organizers of weekend convoy protest at B.C. Legislature planning for extended stay | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/victoria-mayor-asks-participants-in-upcoming-truck-convoy-protest-to-respect-city-businesses-950888/

Description: Organizers of an upcoming weekend protest at the B.C. Legislature in support of an ongoing truck convoy demonstration in Ottawa are planning on staying for days, possibly until “mandates are lifted,” CHEK News has learned.

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Subject:   Zello Victoria Police Department Helps, Lisa Farnworth, Mike,  City of Victoria ,  Treesor, Cole

Title: VIVA Victoria fires volunteer accused of impersonating Island Health in fake endorsement email | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/viva-victoria-fires-volunteer-accused-of-impersonating-island-health-in-fake-endorsement-email-1099952/

Description: The controversial political slate VIVA Victoria says it has “parted ways” with a person connected to the organization who is accused of impersonating Island Health in an email endorsing VIVA candidates.

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Subject:   VIVA Victoria Island Health Day Care Centres,  City of Victoria ,  Greater Victoria School District Andrew, Stephen Quitzua, Jordan Zulu, Judith Maddix, Angie Canadian Anti-Hate Network People's Party of Canada Maddock, Jeremy Dell, Matt Vancouver Island Voters Association Culbert, Alyson

Title: 'We don't understand': Marine border remains closed to Victoria ferry operators | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/we-dont-understand-marine-border-remains-closed-to-victoria-ferry-operators-865401/

Description: Fully vaccinated Americans are coming back to Canada, but not by sea. That has Victoria ferry operators wondering why are the exception to the border reopening.

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Subject:   Coho (Ferry) Black Ball Ferry Line Victoria Clipper FRS Clipper Gudgel, David Burles, Ryan Canada Border Services Agency Vaccinations Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce Destination Greater Victoria,  City of Victoria ,  Government of Canada Helps, Lisa

Title: VicPD chief ‘hopeful’ lifting of COVID-19 mandates hinders incoming convoy’s momentum | Victoria Buzz

URL: https://www.victoriabuzz.com/2022/03/vicpd-chief-hopeful-lifting-of-covid-19-mandates-hinders-incoming-convoys-momentum/

Description: City council’s latest committee of the whole saw VicPD Chief Del Manak in attendance, saying he’s “hopeful” the convoy’s momentum will dissipate “given the latest revision and changes to the provincial health orders that have been relaxed.”

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Subject:   Victoria Police Department Bauder, James Canada Unity BC Vaccine Card Vaccinations,  City of Victoria ,  Manak, Del Farnworth, Mike Victoria Downtown Residents Association Severs, Sandra

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